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The Spinto Band have known each other all their lives  and now we can too

In 1996 a 15-year-old kid living in Wilmington, Delaware — motto: “A Place to be Somebody” — came across a bunch of lyrics jotted down on old cracker boxes by his recently deceased grandfather, and a legend was born.

Well, not immediately, but quite possibly eventually. For the kid was Nick Krill, and he and his friends put the lyrics to music, and eventually chose their band name as a tribute to the man who wrote them. He was Roy Spinto, and they are the Spinto Band.

The band comprise two sets of brothers (drummer Jeff and guitarist Joe Hobson,